द्वितीय राजतरङ्गिणी (जोनराज - कल्हणोत्तर मध्यकालीन कश्मीर का प्रामाणिक इतिहास)

188 KINGS OF KASHMÍRA.
them to be killed. They lived for a few nights, their
sufferings were narrated by their relatives, and they were
seen by the citizens fixed to the pales with tears in their
eyes. The barber knew Vaidūryya the physician to be a
calumniator, and a partisan of the enemy, and he releas-
ed the physician from arrest after cutting off his arms,
his nose, and his lips. Similarly, Nonadeva, Shikhajāla,
and others, five or six persons in all, had their tongues,
noses, and a hand cut off. By such outrageous acts as
mutilation and impaling, the barber Pūrṇa became
the butcher of men. Jayya the son of an āchāryya, as
also a Brāhmaṇa named Bhīma were maimed, and they
struggled and threw themselves into the Vitastā.
In this reign, owing to the prevalence of drunkenness,
wine came to be prepared from molasses as from grapes,
and this wine became as common here as the wine
prepared from sugar is in other countries. When the king
became addicted to wine and averse to all other kinds
of enjoyments, molasses and candies and other things
prepared from the juice of sugar-cane became scarce.
Mallāḍaudaka was a great master of music, and his
pupil Khujyābdolkāḍira taught the king to pay on the
lute. He acquired proficiency in the music of the
lute and other instruments from us and he spent all his
life to the music of the lute, without a moment's intermis-
sion. The king understood the art of playing on the lute
and was well skilled in it, so that he gave lessons even
to the professors. Vahlala and others played on the